Flush car door



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Patented Sept. 1, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE KEN'NTE'JJH J. TOIBIN AND AXEL WASBERG. OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORB 1'0 CAIEL COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS FLUSH CAR DOOR Original application filed Kay 2, 1927, Serial No. 188,141. Divided and this application filed December 17, 1928. Serial No. 326,456.

This application is adivision of our conding ap lication Serial No. 188,141, filed ay 2, 192

The invention relates to a flush car door and concerns itself with means for providing a metal binding for the door together with means for movin the door inwardly and outwardly and gui ing the same during such movements.

The invention comprises the novel structure and combination of parts hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out and defined in the appended claims.

In the accompan mg drawings which illustrate a preferre embodiment of this invention and in which similar reference numerals refer to similar features in the different views:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a portion of a house car closed by a flush door involving this invention.

Fi ure 2 is an enlarged and broken sectiona view taken upon the line II--II of Figure 1. 2 Figure 3 is an-enlarged broken sectional view taken upon the line IIIIII of Figure 1.

Fi re 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 but s owing the door in its out position.

Figure 5- is an enlar ed sectional view taken upon the line V of Figure 1.

Fi re 6 is a view similar to Figure 5 showing the parts in positionwhen the door has been moved outwardly.

. as Figure 7 is a top lan view of the lower front closing guide or the,door.

Figure 8 IS a side elevational view of said closing guide.

As shown on the drawings: In order to fully set forth this invention, there is shown a portion of the side of a house car having an inset doorway or openin 1 which is adapted to beelosed by a meta door 2 which may be suitably corrugated. It will be understoodthat y inset doorwais meant a doorway hich is inwardly 0 set with respect to the supporting track for the door, and which requires a transverse movement of the door. Adjacent one margin of the doorway, there is a door supporting track 3 Figure 2.

which in the present instance is shown above In the illustrated form of the invention two such hangers are shown and each consists of an attaching plate 6which is designed to be bolted to the side of the door, an arm or link 7 which is pivoted to the late 6 as indicated at 7a and depends thererom, and the main hanger. member 8 which as is ivoted at its lower end to the arm or H 7. The main hanger member 8 is provided with a guideway 9 for receiving the rib 4 on the track 3. Each main hanger member-8 overhangs the track 3 and sup- 7o ports a roller 10 which is adapted to travel on the track 3, and a roller 11 which engages the bottom of the track onthe outside of the rib 4. The plate 6 and link 7 having cooperating lugs 601 and 7?) for maintaining 76 member .8 in outward alignment.

At the front edge of the doorway, there is a weather strip 12 which is outwardly and rearwardly inclined to allow the front edge of the door to pass thereunder. This weather stri 12 is attached to a forwardly flanged en 13 of an angle member 14 which is secured to the side of the car and forms the forward end of the doorway. The forward edge of the door 2 is provided with a co-operating metal weather strip 15 which has a flange that is outwardly and rearwardly inclined for engaging under the metal weather strip 12, whereby the front edge of the door becomes metal bound when the door is in its closed position.

At the rear edge of the doorway there is a rearwardly flanged angle member 16. The an 1e members 14 and 16 support vertical ang e members 17 against which the door 2 abuts when the same is in its in position. The front edge of the door 2 is guided to its in position by means of upper and lower guides 18. These guides are substantially similar, the lower guide only being fully'illustrated. The form of guide 18 is clearly shown in Figures 3, 4, 7 and 8 and in referring to these figures, it will be noted that each guide 18 has an attaching flange or portion 19 secured to a part of the car, and an outwardly and rearwardly inclined guiding flange on portion 20 which is integrall connected to the attaching flange by a web 21.

When the door is in its closed position, its rear edge is adapted to be metal bound by a swingable hin ed metal strip 22 which engages against t e outstanding resilient flange 23 of a vertical 2 bar 24 secured to the rear edge of the door. The metal strip 22 is connected to the rear angle member 16 by means of a plurality of hinges 25. Upon the hinge pint e 250 of the upper hinge 25, there is mounted a door actuator 26 shown more clearly in Figures 5 and 6. This door actuator comprises a hub 26a rotatably mounted upon the hinge intle 25a and having a sto lug 27 and a bowed arm 28 that extends t rough a suitable slot 29 in the web of the rear angle 16 and to a point behind the door 2 as shown in Figure 5.

The rear hinged strip 22 is provided with a shoulder 30 in alignment with the stop lug. The shoulder 30 is formed on a transverse metal strip031 secured to the hinged strip 22. The wed arm 28 of the door actuator normall lies in the position shown in Figure 5. liowever when the hinged strip 22 is swung rearwardly as shown in Figure 6, to free the rear margin of the door, the shoulder 30 will engage the stop lug 27 and rotate the actuator or moving the door outwardl as shown in Figure 6.

In order to easi y swing the bin ed strip 22 outwardly, the same 15 prefera ly provided with a handle 32 which may normally latched to the door by a suitable Egiching mechanism such as a hasp 33 and It will be appreciated that the foregoing described structure provides a car door which is metal bound by the front strip 12 and angle 14 and the rear angle 16 and hinged strip 22 when the same is in its closed osition.

It will also be apparent that the rear metal binding for the door cooperates with the door actuator for moving the door outwardly.

, We are aware that many changes may be made and numerous details of construction may be varied through a wide range without departing from the principles of this invention and we, therefore, do not purpose limiting the patent granted hereon, otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

We claim as our invention:

1. In a house car havin an inset doorway, a track parallel to the side of the car and adjacent one margin of the doorway, a slidin door for closing said doorway, foldable ro er supports between said track and door, a weather proofing member at the rear edge of said doorway and having a slot, an arm hinged to said member and adapted for extending through said slot and means for actuatin said arm for moving the door outward y.

2. In a house car having an inset doorway, a track adjacent one margin of the doorway, a door, foldable roller supports upon said door for supporting the same uponsaid track, an angular member attached adjacent the rear e ge of the doorway, a metal plate hinged to said angular member, a Z bar on the rear edge of the door, an arm havin an abutment pivoted coaxially with said p ate and extending through said anglilar member to a point rearward of the door, and means operated by a swinging movement of said plate for engaging said abutment for actuatin said arm for moving the door outward y, said plate being swingable over said 2 bar when said door is closed.

3. In a house car having an inset doorway,

a track adjacent one margin of the doorway, flexible means for sup orting said door upon said track for inwar and outward movement, a bar upon the rear edge of the door, an angular member upon the car adjacent the rear edge of the doorway, a metal plate hinged to said angular member and adapted for engagement over said bar when the door is closed, an arm pivoted coaaially with said hingeplate and extending through said angular member for actuating said door, and means actuated by a swinging movement of said hinge plate for swinging said arm for moving the door outwardly.

4. In a house car having an inset doorway,

be a track adjacent one margin of the doorway means for supportin said door upon said track for inward an outward movement, a member defining the rear edge of said doorway and having a slot, an arm pivoted upon said member and extending through said slot, said arm having a shoulder, a device pivoted u on said member and having a shoulder or coaction with the first mentioned shoulder and a vertical plate ivoted upon said member and swingable or engaging said devioe for bringing said shoul- Ill ders into coaction for operating said arm.

5. In a house car having an inset doorway, a weather strip upon the car adjacent the front edge of said doorway, an angular member attached adjacent the rear edge of the doorway, a sliding door adapted for having its front edge engaged under said weather strip, a metal binding pivoted adjacent the rear edge of said door opening and swingable over the rear edge of the door and actuating means for moving the door outwardly operated by the swinging movements of said metal binding, said metal binding being positioned behind said angular member when the door has been moved outwardly, whereby said door may have unobstructed sliding movement.

6. In a house car having an inset doorway, a sliding door for closing said doorway and having a vertical member extending along the rear edge thereof, a metal member overlapping the front edge of said door in its closed position, a metal binding swingable over the rearedge of said door in its closed position and contacting said vertical member, a shoulder carried by said" metal bindin an actuator for moving said door outwar 1y, an angular member defining the rear end of said door opening and having a slot for receiving said actuator, said actuator having a shou der ada ted for engagement b the shoulder on sai swingable element or operating said actuator for moving said door outwardly.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

KENNETH J. TOBIN.

AXEL WASBERG. 

